Green Star Lager
St. Peters Brewery (Australia)

 

 

Pours a bright and light coloured yellow colour, with a monumental crackling and frothing head of pure white. The head almost looks like bubble-bath, it's made of huge bubbles that stay full and puffy for a long time. Lacing is pure suds across the edges of the glass. Carbonation seems high, but that's expected for the style. Decent look for the style.

Nose is, I guess you'd say expected for the style. Some slight funk and a big dollop of bready yeast notes. Perhaps even a hint of PoR; in any case, it reminds me just far too much of a classic Aussie macro, and it has some rather grungy characters in any case that I don't care for much.

Taste is similar. Wow, yeah there's obviously some Ringworm in this. That classic dirty, woody bitterness throughout, pronounced on the mid- to back-palate, and a yeasty finish to top it off. Feel is clear and crisp, and to be fair, there's nice body to it. If anything, it does a good job of showcasing the Pride of Ringwood, but that's not really something I feel you want to do.

So, to be fair, it's a pretty well-made beer, it's just they used ingredients which really grate with me. I would *love* to see the same brew done with, say, Nelson Sauvin - I think it would be a fantastic beer.

At least, it has that classic property of Aussie lagers that the more PoR you drink, the more it numbs the tongue, and the less you notice it. Drinkable enough.